According to v-spec, tail agnostic behavior can be either kept as
undisturbed or set elements' bits to all 1s. To distinguish the
difference of tail policies, QEMU should be able to simulate the tail
agnostic behavior as "set tail elements' bits to all 1s". An option
'rvv_ta_all_1s' is added to enable the behavior, it is default as
disabled.

There are multiple possibility for agnostic elements according to
v-spec. The main intent of this patch-set tries to add option that
can distinguish between tail policies. Setting agnostic elements to
all 1s makes things simple and allow QEMU to express this.

We may explore other possibility of agnostic behavior by adding
other options in the future. Please understand that this patch-set
is limited.

v2 updates:
- Addressed comments from Weiwei Li
- Added commit tail agnostic on load / store instructions (which
  I forgot to include into the patch-set)

v3 updates:
- Missed the very 1st commit, adding it back

v4 updates:
- Renamed vlmax to total_elems
- Deal with tail element when vl_eq_vlmax == true

v5 updates:
- Let `vext_get_total_elems` take `desc` and `esz`
- Utilize `simd_maxsz(desc)` to get `vlenb`
- Fix alignments to code

v6 updates:
- Fix `vext_get_total_elems`

v7 updates:
- Reuse `max_elems` for vector load / store helper functions. The
  translation sets desc's `lmul` to `min(1, lmul)`, making
  `vext_max_elems` equivalent to `vext_get_total_elems`.

v8 updates:
- Simplify `vext_set_elems_1s`, don't need `vext_set_elems_1s_fns`
- Fix `vext_get_total_elems`, it should derive upon EMUL instead
  of LMUL

v9 updates:
- Let instructions that is tail agnostic regardless of vta respect the
  option and not the vta.

v10 updates:
- Correct range to set element to 1s for load instructions

v11 updates:
- Separate addition of option 'rvv_ta_all_1s' as a new (last) commit
- Add description to show intent of the option in first commit for the
  optional tail agnostic behavior
- Tag WeiWei as Reviewed-by for all commits
- Tag Alistair as Reviewed-by for commit 01, 02
- Tag Alistair as Acked-by for commit 03

v12 updates:
- Add missing space in WeiWei's "Reviewed-by" tag

eopXD (15):
  target/riscv: rvv: Prune redundant ESZ, DSZ parameter passed
  target/riscv: rvv: Rename ambiguous esz
  target/riscv: rvv: Early exit when vstart >= vl
  target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vv instructions
  target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vector load / store
    instructions
  target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vx, vvm, vxm instructions
  target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vector integer shift
    instructions
  target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vector integer comparison
    instructions
  target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vector integer merge and move
    instructions
  target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vector fix-point arithmetic
    instructions
  target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vector floating-point
    instructions
  target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vector reduction instructions
  target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vector mask instructions
  target/riscv: rvv: Add tail agnostic for vector permutation
    instructions
  target/riscv: rvv: Add option 'rvv_ta_all_1s' to enable optional tail
    agnostic behavior

 target/riscv/cpu.c                      |    1 +
 target/riscv/cpu.h                      |    2 +
 target/riscv/cpu_helper.c               |    2 +
 target/riscv/insn_trans/trans_rvv.c.inc |  176 +++
 target/riscv/internals.h                |    6 +-
 target/riscv/translate.c                |    4 +
 target/riscv/vector_helper.c            | 1536 ++++++++++++++---------
 7 files changed, 1110 insertions(+), 617 deletions(-)

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